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北歐航空：火山灰問題若持續　將暫裁2500人
法新社 更新日期:"2010/04/17 13:05" 張稚昀

（法新社斯德哥爾摩16日電） 北歐航空公司（SAS）警告，如果地面上的巨大火山灰雲持續造成航班停擺，他們可能會從19日起暫時解雇2 500名挪威員工。

北歐航空公司發言人曼茲（Elisabeth Manzy）今晚告訴法新社：「我們今天已對2500名員工提出警告，可能會有一波暫時裁員。最後決定將在 19日出爐。」

北歐航空公司在哥本哈根、奧斯陸和斯德哥爾摩等重要運輸紐的所有班機都已遭取消，最快要到格林威治時間17 日下午3時以後才會恢復。曼茲說：「不過，可能到19日所有東西都還是無法運作。」

北歐航空公司今天取消742架航班，除了少數挪威北部的航班，其他都已停飛。挪威的空中交通服務以非常緩慢 的速度重新開放。

北歐航空公司拒絕說明這場火山爆發造成多少損失，不過根據丹麥的Boarding.dk網站，北歐航空公司 每日損失約在2200萬美元左右。Boarding.dk是一個專門針對航空旅行的新聞網站。（譯者：中央 社張稚昀）

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SAS warns of 2,500 temporary lay-offs due to grounded flights

(AFP) – 1 day ago

STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian airline SAS warned it would temporarily lay off up to 2,500 employees in Norway starting Monday if flights halted due to a giant cloud of volcanic ash remained on the ground.

"We have today warned 2,500 employees there could be temporary lay-offs. A final decision will be made on Monday," SAS spokeswoman Elisabeth Manzy told AFP late Friday.

Only employees in Norway had received the warning because Norwegian law requires two days of advanced notice in these cases, she said, adding that workers in Sweden and Denmark would be notified later since laws there were different.

"We can't fly. Our entire fleet is on the ground ... There is nothing for them to do," Manzy explained.

All SAS flights in the company's hub cities Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm have been cancelled until Saturday at 1500 GMT at the earliest, "but everything could still be closed on Monday," she said.

All employees hit by the temporary lay-off would get their job back once flights were back in the air, Manzy said.

The lay-offs "will last only as long as this extraordinary situation is happening," she said.

SAS cancelled 742 flights on Friday, grounding all but a few flights in the north of Norway, where services restarted at a very slow pace.

The company has refused to say how much the volcano blast had cost it but according to Danish Boarding.dk, a specialised air travel news site, SAS was losing around 120 million Danish kroner (16 million euros, 22 million dollars) per day.

Millions of passengers remained stranded across Europe after a huge cloud of ash from a volcano eruption that began in Iceland on Wednesday swept across Europe, grounding thousands of flights in the biggest air travel shutdown since World War II.

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